The  BOWERY 

 NEW  YORK  CITY  

A  .  SURVEY  .  OF  .  THAT  .  NOTORIOUS  .  DISTRICT  .  COMPARING  .  PRESENT  .  CONDITIONS  .  WITH 
THOSE  .  OF  .  PRE  -  PROHIBITION  .  DAYS  Sk  &  COMPILED  .  BY  .  ROBERT  E.  CORRADINI, 
RESEARCH  .  SECRETARY  .  OF  .  THE  .  WORLD  .  LEAGUE  .  AGAINST  .  ALCOHOLISM 
PUBLISHED  .  BY  .  THE  .  WORLD  .  LEAGUE  .  AGAINST  .  ALCOHOLISM  .  WASHINGTON,  D.  C,  .  U.  S.  A. 


ON  THE  FIRST  DAY 
of  July,  1919,  the  traf- 
fic in  alcoholic  beverages 
became  illegal  within  the 
borders  and  possessions 
of  the  United  States.  It 
was  a  war  measure,  proposed  and  en- 
acted chiefly  to  save  food  stuffs,  means 
of  transportation  and  man  power  dur- 
ing the  world  conflict.  It  became  a  per- 
manent policy,  when,  on  Jan.  16,  1920, 
national  prohibition  by  federal  constitu- 
tional amendment  superseded  the  war 
measure. 

More  than  three  years  have  elapsed 
since  constitutional  prohibition  became  operative  and  on  all 
sides  the  question  is  raised  as  to  the  real  value  and  effect  of 
prohibition.  No  exhaustive  survey  has  yet  been  made  to 
ascertain  the  merits  and  defect  of 
this  policy  of  the  American  Re- 
public. 

Undoubtedly  it  is  early  to  draw 
final  conclusions,  but  it  is  not  too 
early  to  look  over  the  field  in  or- 
der 10  ascertain  in  what  direction 
we  are  moving  and  what  we  may 

expect  from  this  policy.  Prohibition  was  willed  by  the 
American  people.  It  is  the  American  way  of  dealing  with 
and  settling  the  liquor  question  which  has  troubled  the 


oub  "shine  buddy"  has  a  soda  and 
"hot  dog"  where  many  a 
father  in  days  gone  by  had  his 
beer  or  whisky 


THE  BOWERY  IN  1886 


The  Boicery,  the  Bowery! 

They  do  such  things  and  they  say  such  things. 
On  the  Bowery,  the  Bowery! 
I'll  never  go  there  any  more. 


world  since  the  days  of  Noah.  This  is  one 
of  several  short  sketches  covering  a  small 
area  with  peculiar  problems,  outlining 
what  prohibition  has  accomplished,  or  in 
what  way  it  has  helped  other  forces 
which  strive  for  the  betterment  of  man- 
kind. 

In  every  city  of  considerable  size,  be- 
fore the  days  of  prohibition, there  was  a 
district  where  visitors,  whose  fair  opin- 
ion was  desired,  were  never  taken  and 
about  vvhich"officials  never  boasted.  New 
York  City,  being  as  human  as  any  other 
city,  had  such  a  spot.  It  was  called 
"The  Bowery."  Here  it  was  that  one 
saw  the  finished  products  of  the  liquor  traffic.  Here  it 
was  that  the  saloon  flourished  in  all  its  glory — or  shame. 
Here,  all  life  revolved  around  it,  here,  the  bar  was  the  hub 

of  daily  activities,  the  heart  of  all 
community  life,  indeed  the  very 
ration  d'etre.  How  has  prohibi- 
tion affected  the  Bowerv? 


Flotsam 


What  was  the  Bowery  life  be- 
fore   prohibition?     This  short 
thoroughfare   on   Manhattan   Island   is   as   well  know 
throughout  the  World  as  Broadway  or  Fifth  Avenue.  It 
is  less  than  a  mile  long,  beginning  at  Chatham  Square, 


STILLS  ON  THE  BOWERY 


SOON  AFTER  PROHIBITION  BECAME  OPERATIVE  IN  NEW  YORK  ALL  THE  HARDWARE  STORES  ON  THE  BOWERY  PUT  IN  A  SUPPLY  OB1  UTENSILS 
FOR  HOME  BREWING.     THE  FIRST  PHOTO  SHOWS  A  STORE  TAKEN  IN   1920,  THE  SECOND  PICTURE  WAS  TAKEN  IN  1923. 
THE  STILLS  HAVE  LARGELY  DISAPPEARED.    RADIQ  SEEMS  TO  HAVE  SUPPLANTED  THE  HOME  STILL. 


only  a  short  distance  above  the  New  York  financial  dis- 
trict, Newspaper  Row,  the  City  Hall  and  extending  for 
twelve  blocks  to  Cooper's  Square.  To  the  east  of  the 
Bowery  is  the  New  York  Ghetto,  a  typical  Jewish  town. 
One  block  west  of  the  Bowery,  one  enters  "Little  Italy," 
where  a  large  Italian  colony  lives  exactly  as  if  it  were  in  a 
section  of  Naples.  The  southernmost  end  of  the  Bowery 
forms  the  beginning  of  Chinatown.  The  whole  is  part  of 
the  lower  East  Side,  where 
all  tongues — even  English 
sometimes — are  spoken,  all 
standards  of  living  found, 
all  creeds  known  and  ig- 
nored. It  is  here  where, 
within  one  square  mile,  half 
a  million  people  exist. 

The  Bowery  catered  to 
the  masses  of  men  whose 
families  were  far  away — 
often  beyond  the  seas ;  to 
pleasure  seekers  far  and 
near;  it  provided  an  outlet 
for  the  pent-up  passions 
and  thirst  of  the  sailors 
navigating  the  "Seven 
Seas,"  when  their  drunk- 


BARNACLES 

THESE  SALOONS  ARE  THE  ONLY  ONES  LEFT  OF  THE  44  WHICH  WERE 
IN  BUSINESS  IN  1916,  OR  OF  THE  97  IN  EXISTENCE  IN  1880 


ONE  OF  THE  FEW  SALOONS  LEFT  AFTER  FOUR  YEARS 
OF  PROHIBITION 


enness  was  still  proverbial ;  here  might  have  been  found 
the  soiled  and  faded  roses  tossed  from  Broadway.  The 
Bowery  was  the  last  haven  for  derelicts ;  here  Bacchus 
and  Gambrinus  reigned  supreme  over  helpless  subjects. 
Here  was  Mike  McGurk's  suicide  hall  —  of  infamous 
repute  and  unsavory  memory  —  where  one  heard  across 
the  bar  the  raucous  squawks  of  its  denizens,  while  in  the 
rear  of  the  saloon  some  unfortunate  who  had  lost  in  the 

struggle  lowered  the  curtain 
on  her  miserable  existence. 

Borderin  g  on  the  Bow- 
ery was  Nigger  Mike's 
place,  whose  owner  had  the 
distinction  of  having  com- 
mitted every  crime  in  the 
calendar  except  treason  and 
murder.  Again,  here  once 
flourished  the  old  Kelly 
saloon,  where  many  a 
"schooner  sailed  across  the 
bar"  and  business  was  in- 
terrupted now  and  then 
only  long  enough  to  spring 
the  trapdoor  in  the  base- 
ment and  thus  dispatch  into 
the  great  beyond  a  hapless 


BOWERY  AND  BROOM  STREET 
ONE  OF  THE  LAST  SALOONS  ON  THE  BOWERY.    THE  BUILDING  IS 
OWNED  BY  THE  BREWERY  WHICH  ADVERTISES  ITS  BEER 
REAL  ESTATE  VALUE,  1916,  $45,000 
REAL  ESTATE  VALUE,  1922,  $40,000 


299  AND  .301  BOWERY 
A  TYPICAL  SECTION  OF  THE  BOWERY.    TWO  SALOONS  ARE  SHELTERED 
UNDER  THE  ROOFS  OF  THESE  DILAPIDATED  RAMS  HACKLES 
VALUE  OF  REAL  ESTATE  IN  1916,  $1 15,000 
VALUE  OF  REAL  ESTATE  IN  1922,  $105,000 


Mil  BOWERY  348  BOWERY 

THIS  OLD  SALOON  GIVES  A  GOOD  IDEA  OF  THE  OLD  BARROOM  THE  LAST  SALOON  ON  THE  LAST  BLOCK   NORTH.    IN  SPITE  OF  THE 

ON  THE  BOWERY  FACT  THAT  IT  HAS  A  VERY  RICH  MENU  FOR  ITS  PATRONS,  THE  BAR 

IS  NEVER  CROWDED.     THE  DAYS  WHEN  MEN  LINED  UP 
FOUR  AND  FIVE  DEEP  ABE  GONE  FOREVER 


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TIIK  SALOON   HAS  BEEN  REPLACED  BY  A  LUNCH  BOOH  AM)  THE  THE  01. D  SHACK,  HOUSING  A  SALOON,  HAS  BEEN  TORN  DOWN  SINCE 

PROPERTY  RENOVATED  PROHIBITION   WENT  INTO  EFFECT.     A  NEW  BUILDING   HAS  BEEN 

ERECTED,    HOUSING    SEVERAL    MANUFACTURING    CONCERNS,  AND 
NOT  ONLY  DO  WE  FIND  THAT  MANY  LUNCH  ROOMS  HAVE  REPLACED  THE  GROUND  FLOOR  INSTEAD  OF  HOUSING   A   BAR  IS   NOW  USED 

SALOONS,  BUT  ON  THE  SIDE  OF  THESE  BUILDINGS  WHERE  FORMERLY  BY  THE  FOLLOWING  STORES: 

THERE   WERE   WHISKY    ADVERTISEMENTS    THREE    STORIES    MICH.  BARBER  SHOP  DRY  GOODS  SOFT  DRINK  STAND 

THERE  ARE  TODAY   HUNDREDS   OF   SIGNS    ADVERTISING    AND   EN-  LUNCH  STATIONERY  DELICATESSEN 

COURAOINO  THE  DRINKING   OF   MILK  THE  OLD   BUILDING    WAS   ASSESSED   FOR  $5,000,   THE   NEW   ONE  IS 

ASSESSED  FOR  $30,000,  WHILE  THE  PROPERTY  (LAND  AND  BUILD- 
ING)   HAS  INCREASED  FROM  $40,000  TO  $08,000. 


FROM  "STEIN"  TO  "PORCELAIN,"  FROM  BEER  MUGS  TO  CHINA  WARE,  FROM  A  THIRD  CLASS  SALOON  TO  A  SECOND  HAND  BOOK  STORE  RUN 
IS  THE  DRY  TALE  OF  THIS  FORMER  SALOON,  AT  241  BOWERY  BY  A  RUSSIAN  JEW  FOR  "LITERARY  INCLINED  HOBOES" 

REAL  ESTATE  VALUE  (  1010)  $25,000  OF  THE  BOWERY 

REAL  ESTATE  VALUE  (1022)  $26,000 


THIS  FORMER  SALOON  ON  THE  BOWERY  ON  THE  OUTSKIRTS  OF  CHINA-  A  FORMER  SALOON  NOW  SELLING  FIXTURES  FOR  STORES  AND  OFFICES 
TOWN  HAS  BEEN  REPLACED  BY  A  MEN'S  CLOTHING  STORE  REAL  ESTATE  VALUE  (1916)  $33,000 

REAL  ESTATE  VALUE  (1916)     $42,000  REAL  ESTATE  VALUE  (1922)  $36,000 

REAL  ESTATE  VALUE  (1922)  $100,000 


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FORMER  SALOON  HAS  BEEN  SUBSTITUTED  BY  A  RECTOR  LUNCH  ROOM       THE  FAMOUS  ONE  MILE  HOUSE   HAS  BECOME  ONE  OF  THE  BUSIEST 
PREMISES  HAVE  BEEN  RENOVATED  LUNCH   ROOMS  ON  THE  BOWERY.    PREMISES  HAVE  BEEN  RENOVATED 

REAL  ESTATE  VALUE  (1916)  $25,000 
REAL  ESTATE  VALUE  (1922)  $31,000 


one  who  had  outlived  his  or  her  usefulness.  All  declin- 
ing roads  led  to  the  Bowery.  There  were  the  haunts  of 
the  crooked  politicians,  the  rendezvous  of  the  underworld. 
Thither  fled  the  fugitive  from  justice.  There  the  weak, 
the  outcast,  were  drawn  into  the  swirling  current  of  a 
deadly  whirlpool.  There  human  parasites  preyed  upon 
their  fellowmen.  There  was  the  Mecca  of  the  devotees 
of  passion ;  the  cesspool  of  drugs,  drink  and  immorality. 
There  humanity  forgot  its  sorrows  in  a  mirage  of  happi- 
ness. The  Bowery  suhmerged  all  in  the  mire  of  passion 
gone  mad. 

In  the  year  1886  there  were  97  bar-rooms  facing  the 
Bowery.  Some  blocks  had  as  many  as  17  and  the  24 
blocks  on  the  Bowery  housed  over  200  saloons.  In  1896 
the  Excise  law  was  passed  and  since  then  the  number  of 
saloons  has  been  reduced. 

In  1914  there  were  on  the  Bowery  40  bars  licensed  to 
sell  alcoholic  beverages.  In  1916  the  number  had  in- 
creased to  44.  This  was  the  last  full  "wet"  year.  Just 
before  prohibition  went  into  effect  the  Bowery  had 
changed  considerably  but  there  were  still  over  forty  sa- 
loons doing  business.  It  is  true  that  the  most  sordid  fea- 
tures had  been  eliminated,  but  drunkenness  was  still  the 
order  of  the  day;  immorality  was  commonplace;  the  dere- 
licts crowded  the  bread  line  and  filled  the  rescue  missions, 
and  the  pedestrian  was  stopped  at  every  block  for  the 
"price  of  a  cup  of  coffee." 

It  was  not  uncommon  to  find  five  or  six  saloons  on  one 
block  facing  the  Bowery.  As  to  the  characters  one  met 
— both  men  and  women — they  defy  description.  The  old 
dilapidated,  nauseating  bar-rooms  reeking  with  the  stench 
of  accumulated  filth,  and  the  cheap,  unsanitary,  but  very 
lively  lodging  houses  where  for  10  cents  or  15  cents  one 
could  get  a  bed  for  a  night,  were  well  described  ns  places 
where 

"In  sudden  stillness — mark  the  sound — 

some  beast  rasps  his  vermin-haunted  hide." 

While  the  activities  of  the  police  and  private  citizens 
made  it  unprofitable  and  unsafe  for  some  of  the  parasites 
to  further  maintain  their  haunts  in  the  Bowery,  little  has 


been  done  with  that  class  of  unfortunates  who  lack  either 
the  training  or  the  intelligence  to  make  the  proper  social 
adjustments.  These  individuals  have  to  a  large  degree 
supported  the  old  order  of  things,  and  while  immediately 
before  prohibition  went  into  effect  conditions  had  very 
much  improved,  it  still  could  be  said  at  that  time  that  so 
far  as  the  Bowery  was  concerned  it  was  even  then  a  place 
"where  there  ain't  no  Ten  Commandments  and  a  man  can 
drown  a  thirst." 

A  vivid  picture  of  the  Bowery  and  the  whole  neighbor- 
hood is  given  in  Joe's  famous  song: 

IN  CHINATOWN 

(Joe's  Famous  Song) 

The  world  will  judge  you  harsh  and  coldly, 

When  you  have  fallen  from  God's  grace, 
The  friends  you  always  loved  so  dearly, 

Will  close  their  heart's  door  to  your  face. 
No  love  or  mercy  will  they  tender, 

No  hand  will  lift  you  when  you're  down. 
They  let  you  drift  down  to  the  Bowery, 

They  let  you  land  in  Chinatown. 

Her  days  of  bloom  and  youth  are  over, 

The  Broadway  belle  has  run  her  pace. 
Gone  are  the  merry  days  of  pleasure. 

And  want  has  taken  splendor's  place. 
Alone  she  sits,  the  past  bewailing, 

Her  tears  drop  on  the  tattered  gown, 
But  who  does  care  for  faded  roses, 

For  drunken  Nell  in  Chinatown  ? 

The  girl  left  prison  just  behind  her. 

She's  pleading  at  her  neighbor's  door, 
"Just  one  more  chance  if  you  will  give  me. 

I  promise  T  will  sin  no  more." 
The  world  refuses  to  receive  her. 

No  one  will  trust  her  while  she's  down. 
At  last  she  landed  on  the  Bowery, 

One  white  slave  more  in  Chinatown. 


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Forsaken  and  betrayed,  she's  roaming 

The  dark  and  lonely  streets  at  night. 
The  weeping  Magdalene  is  trying 

To  hide  her  shame  from  human  sight. 
"I'll  mend  my  ways  if  you'll  forgive  me," 

She  cries,  but  with  an  icy  frown 
The  world  says,  "No !"  and  she  is  driven 

To  sell  herself  in  Chinatown. 

Jetsam 

Prohibition  did  not  come  suddenly  in  New  York. 
While  the  progress  was  not  as  slow  as  in  other  states 
where  liquor  was  outlawed  gradually  from  the  towns,  then 
the  cities  and  finally  from  the  state,  yet  certainly  fair 
warning  of  the  approach  of  prohibition  had  been  given 
and  there  was  plenty  of  time  for  all  to  become  accustomed 
to  the  new  order  of  things.  Prohibition  in  New  York  City, 
like  Topsy,  "just  growed."  First  came  the  war,  which  put 
prices  up  while  the  quality  went  down.  Then  when  the 
Treasury  Department  had  increased  taxes  on  liquor  until 
a  glass  of  whisky  cost  twice  as  much  for  half  as  much  and 
beer  schooners  shrank  in  size,  there  came  what  was  equally 
significant  for  the  Bowery  element,  the  "Fight  or  Work" 
law.  This  was  followed  by  a  broadside  from  the  Navy  and 
a  barrage  from  the  Army  when  they  went  "dry."  And 
after  this,  instead  of  the  Deluge,  came  Prohibition! 

New  York  had  a  weaning  period  from  spring  1917  to 
summer  1919.  The  Federal  Government  always  watch- 
ful for  the  youth  entrusted  to  the  Army  and  Navy,  saw 
to  it  that  the  law  was  enforced  even  in  New  York.  This 
meant  a  real  housecleaning  for  the  Bowery.  Many  of  the 
habitues  went  to  fight  and  some  even  to  work.  Finding 
three  good  meals  a  day,  good  clothes  and  a  sober  and  clean 
environment  agreeable,  and  encouraged  by  the  jingle  of 
some  change  in  their  pockets,  many  turned  their  back  on 
the  Bowery  for  all  time  and  faced  a  better  world.  A  few, 
alas,  drifted  back,  but  even  they  found  the  change  pleasing. 
Many  of  the  old  rummies  still  cling  tenaciously  to  their 
beloved  Bowery  but  no  longer  idle  their  evenings  away  at 
the  bar — they  may  be  found  in  a  lunch  room  or  at  the 
movies,  but  very  rarely  in  a  saloon.    Furthermore,  there 


THE  SALOON  HAS  GIVEN  WAY  TO  A  CIGAR  STORE  ON  THE  CORNER, 
THE  OTHER  PART  OF  THE  STORE  IS  OCCUPIED  BY  A  DRYGOODS  STORE 


are  no  saloons  on  the  Bowery  to  day  worthy  of  the  name. 

The  Saloon  Today 

in  1886  there  were  97  saloons  on  the  Bowery.  Thir- 
ty years  of  agitation  and  legislation  reduced  the  number  to 
44  by  the  end  of  the  last  "wet"  year.  Four  years  of  prohibi- 
tion have  reduced  the  44  to  an  even  six.  It  should  be  added 
that  five  of  them  are  about  as  unattractive,  filthy  and 
dilapidated  as  barrooms  can  be.  These  six  barnacles  cling 
10  the  old  order.  Some  of  them  are  owned  by  brewers 
and  some  of  them  by  barkeepers  who  are  waiting  for  a 
good  chance  to  sell. 

The  objections  to  the  effect  that  prohibition  is  not  being 
well  enforced,  or  cannot  be  enforced,  that  it  is  too  soon  to 
judge,  that  it  is  class  legislation  (against  saloonkeepers, 
gamblers  and  houses  of  ill  fame)  and  other  criticisms,  all 
emanating  from  the  same  general  source  can  be  answered 
by  other  surveys.  This  one  on  the  Bowery  shows  beyond 
the  peradventure  of  a  doubt,  that  whereas  thirty  years  of 
licensing  reduced  the  bar-rooms  by  54  per  cent,  four  years 
of  National  prohibition,  without  the  consent  or  approval 
of  the  Bowery,  have  eliminated  84  per  cent  of  the  gin  mills 
on  this  particular  street  where  the  liquor  traffic  was  most 
solidly  entrenched.  The  remaining  16  per  cent  are  on  their 
best  behavior,  apparently,  but  conditions  have  changed  so 
much  that  before  long  they  too  must  give  way  to  the  new 
and  better  order  of  things.  Some  of  them  have  added  a 
menu  to  the  list  of  soft  drinks  which  they  pretend  to  sell, 
but  the  youth  of  America  becomes  every  year  more  par- 
ticular, even  fussy  and  discriminating,  and  before  long  the 
man  who  prefers  his  sandwich  in  the  suffused  atmosphere 
of  a  gloomy  barroom  will  be  a  back  number. 

Substitutes 

W  hat  is  taking  the  place  of  the  saloons?  None  are 
for  rent !  On  the  first  day  of  May  one  saloon  went  out 
of  business.  As  the  old  fixtures  were  being  removed 
through  the  rear  door,  a  truck  in  front  was  discharging 
the  paraphernalia  of  a  new  paper  concern  which  was  to 
occupy  the  place.  Thus  they  pass  "unwept,  unhonored  and 
unsung." 

"Sic  transit  gloria  mundi." 


FORMER  SALOON  NOW  OCCUPIED  BY  A  RESTAURANT  OWNED 
BY  A  CHINESE 
REAL  ESTATE  VALUE  (1916)  $50,000 

PREMISES  RENOVATED 
REAL  ESTATE  VALUE  (1922)  $53,000 


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THE  BEGINNING  OF  THE  BOWERY  FROM  CHATHAM  SQUARE,  WHERE 
THE  "ELEVATED  RAIL  ROAD"  SUPERSTRUCTURE  TURNS  THE  STREET 
INTO  PERENNIAL  NIGHT 
FORMERLY  A  THIRD  GRADE  SALOON,  NOW  RENOVATED  AND  ITS  PREM- 
ISES OCCUPIED  BY  STORES  SELLING  FURS,  LADIES'  WEAR,  MEN'S 
WEAR,  ALSO,  A  SOFT  DRINK  STAND;  BASEMENT— FORMERLY  USED 
FOR  BEER  KEGS-NOW  A  LAUNDRY 

REAL  ESTATE  VALUE  (1916)  $87,000 

PREMISES  RENOVATED 
REAL  ESTATE  VALUE  (1922)  $110,000 

Many  became  lunch  rooms,  as  the  old  One  Mile  House 
or  the  once  famous  Pat  Farley  saloon. 

It  was  over  that  bar  that  one  heard  again  and  again 
how  Tim  Campbell  asked  Grover  Cleveland,  "Now,  Mr. 
President  what  is  the  constitution  between  friends?" 
Instead  of  the  old  familiar  voices  of  Tim  Sullivan  and 
his  east  side  politicians  the  old  Pat  Farley  saloon  re- 
verberates today  with  the  staccato  of  the  short  order 
cook  and  his  "bus"  boys  touching  such  weighty  mat- 
ters as  "Ham  and  Eggs,"  "Hash — have  it  brown,"  and 
similar  symphonies. 

The  Bowery  of  today  loves  to  eat  and  it  eats  to  its 
heart's  content. 

Since  prohibition  went  into  effect  the  bread  line  has 
discontinued  in  spite  of  the  crisis  of  unemployment  we 
went  through.  The  former  patrons  of  the  bread  line 
are  today  the  neophytes  of  the  lunch  rooms,  and  how 
they  do  love  to  put  out  of  sight  the  heaps  of  doughnuts 
and  crullers  moistened  by  a  swallow  of — Java  coffee  at 
three  cents  a  cup ! 


THIS  BUILDING,  WHILE  IT  HAS  NOT  HOUSED  A  SALOON  FOR  SOME 
YEARS  PAST,  GIVES  A  GENERAL  CONCEPTION  OF  THE  OLD  CONDI- 
TIONS WHEN  THE  LIQUOR  TRAFFIC  HELD  FULL  8 WAY 


THE   SALOON  HAS  BEEN  REPLACED  BY  A  FIRST  CLASS  DEPARTMENT 
STORE.    THE  PROPERTY  HAS  BEEN  RENOVATED 
REAL  ESTATE  VALUE  (1916)  $112,000 
REAL  ESTATE  VALUE  (1922)  $125,000 

A  SIMILAR  TRANSFORMATION  HAS  TAKEN  PLACE  IN  MANY  INSTANCES 


The  very  sight  of  them  should  be  a  sure  cure  for  dys- 
pepsia. Every  night  these  lunch  rooms  are  crowded. 
The  patrons  are  orderly  and  disturbances  are  as  much 
out  of  order  as  they  would  be  in  any  restaurant  on 
Fifth  Avenue.  The  lunch  room  has  substituted  the 
bar-room.  On  the  Bowery  there  are  today  more  eat- 
ing places  than  there  were  saloons  six  years  ago. 

Aside  from  the  lunch  rooms,  the  rescue  missions,  the 
Salvation  Army  hotel  and  the  lodging  houses  have  en- 
tirely supplanted  the  gin  mills. 

Before  prohibition  many  good  people  were  worried 
about  the  disappearance  of  the  "poor  man's  club"  and 
certain  labor  leaders,  with  moist  idiosyncrasies,  pre- 
dicted all  kinds  of  dire  consequences.  The  problem 
took  care  of  itself.  Those  qualities  which  made  the 
bartender  popular  behind  the  mahogany  bar  are  better 
appreciated  and  rewarded  behind  the  lunch  or  ice 
cream  counter.  The  assertion  or  belief  that  men  really 
like  to  wallow  in  the  mire  of  the  barroom  belongs  to 
the  days  of  "Sodom  and  Gomorrah."    The  belief  that 


A    HARDWARE   STORE    AND    RESTAURANT    WHICH    HAVE   TAKEN  THE 
PLACE  OF  A  FORMER  SALOON 


P  A  0  E  SIX 


A  LUNCH  ROOM   WHICH   HAS  SUPPLANTED  A  FORMER  SALOON 

these  people,  because  they  were  reared  in  this  environment 
or  drifted  thither  on  account  of  some  upheaval  with  which 
they  were  unable  to  cope — the  belief  that  any  man  really 
prefers  this  kind  of  limited  semi-barbaric  existence — is 
sheer  nonsense.  Witness 
the  drunkard  of  yester- 
day— -adorned  in  white  col- 
lar, multi-colored  silk  shirt, 
with  stiff  hat,  brown  shoes, 
a  "nobby"  suit  and  Tut- 
ankh-amen  necktie,  a  trifle 
gaudy,  somewhat  loud  — 
screaming  if  you  please  — 
but  it  heralds  the  awaken- 
ing of  a  man,  just  as  the 
thrush  and  the  violet  be- 
token the  coming  of  spring. 

Few  things  are  so  pa- 
thetic as  the  apologia  of 
those  who  claimed  a  few 
years  ago  that  the  war  was 
the  beginning  of  a  spiritual 
awakening  such  as  had 
never  been  known  in  the 

history  of  man.  The  war  came  and  passed  and  we  drifted 
back  from  the  high  idealism  and  patriotism  of  1917  and 
1918.    The  only  redeeming  force  has  been  prohibition. 

The  Real  Value  of  Prohibition 

The  value  of  prohibition  is  evident  on  the  Bowery.  The 
war  awakened  the  latent  forces  of  the  denizens  of  the  lower 
East  Side,  but  it  was  prohibition  which  eliminated  the  con- 
ditions which  characterized  the  old  order.  What  if  after  the 
war,  and  the  period  of  high  wages,  our  lads  had  returned 
to  the  cheap  shows,  dance  and  music  halls  of  the  Bowery? 
What  if  forty  or  fifty  saloons  had  had  to  compete  for  their 
patronage?  What  would  have  become  of  the  moral  and 
spiritual  gain  these  boys  got  during  the  war?  As  far  as 
the  Bowery  is  concerned  it  has  demonstrated  that  the 
liquor  traffic  was  the  power  of  cohesion  for  all  that  was 
vile,  vulgar  and  sordid,  and  prohibition  has  proven  to  be 
the  disintegrating  force  of  it  all.  The  saloon  was  the  hub 
around  which  all  vice  revolved.  Prohibition  blasted  it  into 
smithereens.  When  the  boys  returned  they  found  a  haber- 


IIOWEKY  AND  CANAL  STREETS 
A  NEW  HANK  IS  DEI  NO  ERECTED  ON  THIS  GROUND  WHICH 
FORMERLY  HOUSED  A  BARROOM 


dashery  (it  may  have  been  a  "hashery")  in  the  place  of 
the  old  bar,  or  it  may  have  been  a  glass  or  crockery  store. 
In  spite  of  the  high  wages  paid  to  men  no  new  saloons 
opened  during  the  war.  Since  July  1,  1919,  the  bars 
have  just  been  "petering"  out.  Taxes  were  high  and 
the  patronage  low.  The  saloons  tried  to  circumvent 
the  law  but  it  became  harder  "every  day  in  every  way." 
Besides,  bootleg  prices  jumped  beyond  the  seventh  sky 
and  the  quality  descended  below  the  grade  of  embalm- 
ing rluid. 

What  the  war  started,  prohibition  finished.  It  cut 
off  the  supply  of  boys,  and  the  few  remaining  bars  are 
kept  alive  only  by  the  old  cronies. 

Mission  Work 
On  the  Bowery  there  have  been  for  a  number  of  years 
some  of  the  most  famous  rescue  missions.  There  is 
the  Hadley  Hall  holding  forth  on  the  premises  of  the 
old  Kelley  saloon.  Brother  John  Callahan  is  still 
on  the  job  and  expects  to  stay  for  many  years.  For  a 
quarter  of  a  century  he  has  been  the  friend  of  every- 
body on  the  Bowery  and  is  known  and  beloved  by  all. 

He  was  there  when  almost 
every  other  store  on  his 
block  was  a  bar,  but  today 
only  two  are  left.  The  Had- 
ley Hall  services  are  well 
attended  and  the  crowds 
are  always  sober.  Instead 
of  being  an  adjunct  to  the 
bar  and  a  sobering-up  sta- 
tion, the  mission  today  is 
doing  the  real  work  for 
which  it  was  called  into  ex- 
istence. It  tries  not  only  to 
bring  men  nearer  to  God 
but  makes  it  possible  for 
them  to  "stay  put."  It  helps 
the  men  to  make  their  so- 
cial re-adjustments  and  to 
meet  the  exigencies  of  the 
world  of  today.  Prohibi- 
tion has  eliminated  a  lot  of  dirty  work  from  the  missions 
but  they  are  doing  today  a  most  commendable  work.  The 
Bowery  is  still  the  haven  of  many  unfortunates  not  blest 
with  the  mental  equipment  or  moral  stamina  to  meet  the 


THIS  TAILORING  CONCERN  HAS  REPLACED  ONE  OF  THE 
CORNER  SALOONS 


P  A  (i  E     S  E  V  E  N 


SALOONS  ON  THE  BOA 


THE  BOWERS 


SOUTH) 


CHRISTIE  STREET 


THIS  SURVEY_SHOWS  THE  CONDITION  ON  THE  BOWERY  UP  TO  THE  END  OF  MAY,  1923,1 


The  above  chart  of  the  Bowery, 
New  York,  indicates  where  the  97 
saloons  were  located  in  1886.  The 
solid  black  triangles  and  squares 
were  the  saloons  37  years  ago.  The 
marks  with  a  cross  show  where  the 
few  saloons,  which  have  not  as  yet 
discontinued,  are  situated. 

The  number  of  bar-rooms  known 
to  have  been  in  business  on  this 
short  street,  less  than  one  mile  long, 
are  as  follows: 


In  1886,  97  under  local  regulation. 

In  1914,  40;  in  1916,  44  under  state 
excise  law. 

In  1918,  36  under  war-time  re- 
strictions. 

In  1920,  28;  in  1921,  17;  in  1922;  9; 
in  1923,  6  under  National  Prohibi- 
tion by  Consitutional  Amendment* 

This  chart  would  indicate  that 
thirty  years  of  legislation  reduced 
the  bar-rooms  from  97  to  44,  while 
National  Prohibition  reduced  the  44 


exacting  demands  of  everyday  life  in  such  a  cosmopoli- 
tan conglomeration  as  is  in  New  York.  Furthermore,  we 
have  just  emerged  from  a  booze  epidemic  and  the  disin- 
fecting process  has  just  begun. 

The  bowery  Mission  has  eliminated  the  once  famous 
bread  line  at  one  o'clock  in  the  morning  during  the 
winter,  although  like  Hadley  Hall  it  still  gives  meals  to 


those  who  are  temporarily  in  want  and  out  of  work.  Here, 
too,  the  crowds  are  sober  and  the  meetings,  instead  of 
being  taken  up  with  invectives  against  the  demon  rum, 
have  a  religious  or  patriotic  program  and  sometimes  one 
may  see  a  good  picture  or  hear  a  physician  instruct  how 
to  take  care  of  the  body. 

The  Mission  which  before  prohibition  found  work 


PAGE  EIOIIT 


ERY  THEN  AND  NOW 


\|  1886 


(imr// 


DNS  IN  1886=AorI;    IN  1923=Aor  A 


ROBERT  E.CORRADINI.  N.Y.C  1923 


E  THE  STATE  AND  NATION  CO-OPERATED  TO  ENFORCE  THE  EIGHTEENTH  AMENDMENT. 


to  28  and  with  state  cooperation  they 
came  down  to  6  in  less  than  four 
years. 

The  Bowery  ( Dutch  name  for 
farm),  was  originally  a  street  which 
passed  through  the  farm  of  Gover- 
nor Peter  Stuyvesant. 

It  extends  from  Chatham  Square 
for  twelve  blocks  to  the  beginning 
of  Cooper  Square.  For  years  it  has 
been  pre-eminent  in  America  as  the 
street  of  cheap  theaters,  dance  halls, 


drinking  gardens  and  low  saloons. 

West  of  the  Bowery  is  an  Italian 
colony,  while  east  of  the  Bowery  is 
the  Ghetto  of  New  York.  The 
southern  end  is  the  beginning  of 
Chinatown. 

The  photographs  in  these  pages 
contrast  the  Bowery  as  it  was  im- 
mediately before  National  Prohibi- 
tion and  a  few  years  after  the  advent 
of  the  Eighteenth  Amendment. 

*In  May  15,  1923  also  under  state  enforcement. 


for  only  three  to  five  thousand  people  every  year,  in  the 
last  two  years  has  increased  this  service  about  ten  times 
and  now  finds  employment  for  forty  to  fifty  thousand 
people  every  year. 

The  Hoyer  Street  Mission  located  in  the  old  Chinese 
theatre,  conducts  religious  services  where  formerly 
some  of  the  most  degrading  shows  were  staged.  Here 


also  the  crowds  of  men  who  come  in  every  night  are 
orderly  and  sober. 

In  the  basement  of  this  old  Chinese  theatre  one  can 
still  see  the  secret  passages,  the  old  berths  of  the  dope 
fiends,  but  all  of  these  now  are  only  for  visitors  and  sight- 
seers. 

The  Salvation  Army  is  conducting  a  hotel  on  the 


PAGE  NINE 


BEFORE  AND  AFTER 


THESE  PHOTOGRAPHS,  SOME  OF  WHICH  WERE  TAKEN  BEFORE  PROHIBITION  IN  1919  AND  RETAKEN  DURING  1922,  SHOW  A  CONTRAST  OF  THE 

BOWERY  AS  IT  USED  TO  BE  AND  AS  IT  APPEARS  TODAY 


THE  PICTURE  SHOWS  THE  OLD  SALOON  HOUSED  IN  A  FRAME  BUILDING.    ALSO  A  SITTING  ROOM  WITH  THE  LADIES -ENTRANCE  IN  THE  REAR. 
A  NEW  THREE-STORY  BRICK  BUILDING  HAS  TAKEN  THE  PLACE   OF   THIS   OLD   FRAME   HOUSE.     THE   VALUE   OF   THE  REAL 

ESTATE  HAS  INCREASED  FROM   $40,000  TO  $50,000 


.  VMiUPtrtMST 
'  —  -  .  -w 

RES  TAURANT  U  < 

AttrSHv  It?          -JWBf         CMIL  WAGNER 

9, 

NOTICE  IN  THE  PICTURE  THE  PATRONS  OF  THE  SALOON  LYING  AND  RESTING  IN  FRONT  OF  THE  BARROOM.    ONE  OF  THE  FORMER  ALLIGATOR 

SALOONS  ON  THE  BOWERY  IS  NOW  A  RESTAURANT 


BEFOBE  PKOIIIIHTION  AFTER  PROHIBITION 

THE  PURITAN  HOTEL,  A  VERY  WELL  KNOWN  SALOON.    SINC  E  PROHIBITION  THE  WHOLE  BUILDING  HAS  BEEN  RENOVATED.   THE  UPPER  STORIES 
ARE  STILL  USED  AS   A   LODGING   HOUSE  WHILE  IN   THE  PLACE  OF  THE  SALOON  THERE  IS  A  FIRST  CLASS  CAFETERIA.    THE  PLACE 
FORMERLY  USED  AS  A  SITTING  ROOM  IS  ONE  OF  THE  MOST  ELEGANT  HABERDASHERIES  IN  THE  NEIGHBORHOOD  SELLING 
SILK   SHIRTS  AT  $7  AND  $8,  SILK   BATHROBES    FROM  $14  TO  $16  AND  GLOVES  FROM  $8  TO  $10 

THE  REAL   ESTATE  VALUE  IN    1916  $75,000 

THE   REAL   ESTATE   VALUE   IN    1922  $95,000 


PAGE     T E N 


BEFOREHAND  AFTER 

THE  VALUE  OF  THE  GROUND  ON  THE  BOWERY  HAS  DEPRECIATED  IN  MANY  CASES  DUE  TO  ADDITIONAL  TRANSPORTATIONS 

A  GOOD  MANY  BUSINESS  CONCERNS  HAVE  MOVED  UPTOWN 

HOWEVER,  WHILE  THE  LAND  HAS  DEPRECIATED,  THE  VALUE  OF  BUILDINGS  HAS  SO  MUCH  INCREASED  AS  TO  OFFSET  DECREASED  LAND  VALUES 


THE  FORMER  STAR  HOTEL  HAS  YIELDED  TO  PROHIBITION.    THE  FORMER  BARROOM  HAS  BEEN  TURNED  INTO  TWO  STORES  SELLING  SHOES  AND  HATS 


ANOTHER  OF  THE  ALLIGATOR  SALOONS-A  MOST  DISREPUTABLE  PLACE-NOW  IS  ONE  OF  THE  BEST  CUTLERY  CONCERNS  IN  THE  DISTRICT 

THE  PREMISES,  AS  IN  EVERY  OTHER  CASE,  HAS  BEEN  RENOVATED 


THE  FORMER  PAT  FARLEY   SALOON  WHERE  THE  CHIEFTAINS  OF  TAMMANY    HALL   HAD   THEIR   "POW  WOWS."    THIS    WAS   AN  UNOFFICIAL 
"ANNEX"   TO   TAMMANY   HALL.    IMPORTANT  POLITICAL   CONFERENCES  WERE  HELD  IN  THE  REAR.    TODAY  IT  IS  A  CAFETERIA 
THE  VALUE  OF  THE  PROPERTY  HAS  INCREASED  FROM  $29,000  TO  $36,000 


PAGE  ELEVEN 


THE  CORNER  SALOON  HAS  BEEN  REPLACED  BY  THE  ABOVE  STORE 
SELLING  ELECTRICAL  SUPPLIES.  THE  BASEMENT,  FORMERLY  USED 
FOR  BEER  KEGS,  IS  A  BARBER  SHOP 

NOTICE  THE  APPARENTLY'  HIGH  CLASS  FIXTURES  IN  THE  WINDOW  OF 
THIS  STORE  IS  SITUATED  IN  THE  VERY  HEART  OF  THE  EAST  SIDE, 
GENERALLY  CONSIDERED  THE  POOREST  SECTION  OF  OUR  CITY 


A   DRY  GOODS  STORE  ON  CHATHAM  SQUARE  ON  THE  BOWERY  WHICH 

HAS  SUPPLANTED  A  BARROOM 
IN  THIS  WINDOW  THERE  ARE  SHIRTS  FOR  SALE  AT  $4,  $5  AND  $6 


Bowery.  There  the  men  with  very  limited  means  may 
have  most  of  the  comforts  of  the  average  hotel.  The 
rates  are  moderate  and  that  hotel,  with  kindred  institu- 
tions, is  always  well  patronized. 

The  lodging  houses  have  increased  their  prices  sever- 
al hundred  per  cent  and  they  too  are  always  crowded. 
The  men  of  the  Bowery  have  the  price  to  pay  but  insist 
on  better  sanitary  conditions ;  they  will  not  tolerate  the 
dumps  of  yesterday. 

Of  the  thirty-eight  saloons  which  went  out  of  busi- 
ness since  1916,  practically  all  have  been  renovated.  In 
many  cases  the  old  dilapidated  buildings  have  been  torn 
down  and  brick  buildings  with  all  the  latest  improvements 
have  taken  their  place. 

Twenty-nine  properties  which  formerly  housed  sa- 
loons showed  an  assessed  valuation  of  $1,035,000  in 
1916  for  the  land  alone.  The  value  of  land  and  build- 
ings was  in  the  same  year  $1,269,500.  The  same  prop- 
erties were  assessed  in  1922  for  land  $1,102,000  and  for 
land  and  buildings,  $1,501,500.   This  shows  an  increase 


in  ilie  value  of  land  of  $67,500  while  the  increase  in  land 
and  buildings  is  $232,000. 

it  should  be  remembered  that  the  additional  sub- 
ways in  New  York  have  tended  to  increase  the  value 
ot  land  uptown  at  the  expense  of  properties  downtown. 
We  find,  therefore,  that  the  value  of  land  on  the 
Bowery  decreased  in  many  instances.  Yet  the  total  for 
these  properties — former  saloons — shows  an  increase.  In 
part  this  is  accounted  for  by  the  fact  that  many  very 
valuable  new  buildings  have  been  put  up  in  the  place  of 
former  saloons. 

The  six  saloons  which  are  still  in  business  show  a  de- 
crease in  value,  both  for  land,  and  for  land  and  buildings. 

The  valuation  for  these  properties  which  in  1916  was 
$242,000  had  declined  to  $211,000  in  1922.  The  value 
of  th e  land  and  buildings  for  these  same  properties  was 
in  1916,  $291,000  but  had  shrunk  to  $285,000  in  1922. 

This  shows  a  decrease  in  the  value  of  the  land  of 
$31,000  while  the  value  of  land  and  building  has  de- 
creased $6,000. 


THIS   CORNER  AND  ADJOINING   BUILDINGS   WERE   USED   BY  SALOONS 
TODAY  A  CIGAR  STORE  AND  A  CLOTHIER  ARE  DOING 
A  LARGE  BUSINESS 


FROM   BEER   MUGS   TO  FRENCH   PLATE  AND  MIRRORS 
THE   FORMER   BARROOM   EMPLOYED  TWO   PEOPLE,   WHERE   THIS  NEW 
CONCERN  HAS  A  DOZEN  MEN  ON  THE  PAY  ROLL  CONSTANTLY 


PAGE  TWELVE 


BOWERY  CROWDS 


THE  BOWERY  IS  AS  POPULAR  AS  EVER.    THE  CROWDS  ARE  ALWAYS  THERE,   BUT   HOW   DIFFERENT,   SOBER— CLEAN— ORDERLY 
THERE  IS  ALWAYS  A  CROWD  TO  BE  FOUND  ON  THE  BOWERY.    THE  MEN  ARE  GENERALLY  WELL  DRESSED  AND  HAVE  MONEY  TO  SPEND 
ON  THE  CANAL  STREET  TERRACE  HUNDREDS  OF  MEN  DURING  THE  NOON  HOUR  ARE  SEEN  TALKING  BUSINESS  AND  POLITICS 

AND  ARE  ALL  SOBER  AND  WELL  DRESSED 


THESE  PICTURES  TAKEN   IN  THE  HEART  OF  THE  BOWERY   DO  NOT  SEEM  TO  FIT  IN  WITH  AIL  THE  WILD  STORIES 

OK  THE  BOWERY  OF  FOUR  OR  FIVE  YEARS  AGO 


CREAGH,  OF  AUSTRALIA,  VISITING  HIS  OLD  HAUNT 


IT  WAS  IN  THIS  FORMER  SALOON  THAT  MR.  W.  D.  B.  CREAGH  FROM 
AUSTRALIA,  A  FORMER  CHAMPION  PRIZE  FIGHTER,  USED  TO  MAKE 
HIS  HEADQUARTERS  WHILE  IN  NEW  YORK.  ON  HIS  RECENT  VISIT 
HE  CALLED  ON  THE  MANAGER,  WHO  GAVE  HIM  THIS  STATEMENT: 

"BUSINESS  SINCE  THE  BAR  HAS  GONE  IS  DIFFERENT.  WE  DEALT  WITH 
ANIMALS  FORMERLY.  NOW  WE  DEAL  WITH  MEN" 


IILE  WE  CANNOT  HAVE  BEER  THERE  IS  NO  REASON  WHY  WE 
SHOULD  NOT  HAVE  PRETZELS 
AT  LEAST  THAT  IS  THE  OPINION  OF  THIS  GENTLEMAN 
FROM  THE  JEWISH  SETTLEMENT 


THIS  BARROOM  DISCONTINUED  BUSINESS  ON  THE  FIRST  OF  MAY,  1923 
THE  FIXTURES  HAD  NOT  ALL  BEEN  REMOVED  WHEN  THE  NEW  CONCERN  STARTED  TO  MOVE  IN  ON  THE  FIRST  OF  THE  MONTH 
IN  THIS  CASE  THE  FIRST  OF  MAY  WAS  THE  LAST  OF  AUGUST-THE  BARKEEPER 
THE  FIRST  PHOTO  SHOWS  THE  BAR  IN  1919.     THE  SECOND  SHOWS  THE  PASSING  OF  ANOTHER  BARROOM 


PAGE  THIRTEEN 


TABLE  I 


VALUE  OF  LAND,  ALSO  LAND  AND  BUILDINGS,  OF 
TWENTY-NINE  PROPERTIES  ON  THE  BOWERY, 
FORMERLY  USED  AS  SALOONS* 


 1916 

<  1922 

TOTAL 

TOTAL 

LAND 

VALUE 

LAND 

VALUE 

1.  $ 

76,000  $ 

87,000 

$    100,000  $ 

110,000 

2. 

20,000 

25,000 

20,000 

27,000 

3. 

30,000 

42.000 

30,000 

46,000 

4. 

32,000 

38,000 

28,000 

34,000 

5. 

35,000 

48,000 

35,000 

53,000 

6. 

30,000 

42,000 

65,000 

100,000 

7. 

60,000 

80,000 

58,000 

80,000 

8. 

75,000 

95,000 

75,000 

100,000 

9. 

35,000 

36,000 

41,000 

43,000 

10. 

82,000 

112,000 

80,000 

125,000 

11. 

24,000 

28,000 

24,000 

30,000 

12. 

42,000 

50,000 

44,000 

58,000 

13. 

23,000 

26,500 

19,000 

25,000 

14. 

31,000 

33,000 

31,000 

36,000 

15. 

27,000 

29,000 

27,000 

36,000 

16. 

65,000 

80,000 

72,000 

95,000 

17. 

60,000 

75,000 

74,000 

95,000 

18. 

28,000 

31,000 

21,000 

26,000 

19. 

22,000 

25,000 

21,000 

26,000 

20. 

31,000 

37,000 

28,000 

35,000 

21. 

21,000 

24,000 

20,000 

25,000 

22. 

21,000 

26,000 

20,000 

27,000 

23. 

22,000 

35,000 

20,500 

41,000 

24. 

35,000 

40,000 

56,000 

86,000 

25. 

37,000 

40,000 

33,000 

50,000 

26. 

11,000 

13,000 

9,000 

11,500 

27. 

26,000 

29,000 

22,000 

31,000 

28. 

21,000 

25,000 

18,000 

28,000 

29. 

13,000 

18,000 

11,000 

22,000 

Total  $1,035,000  $1,269,500 

$1,102,000  $1,501,500 

Increase- 

-Land  Value   

$  67,500 

Increase- 

-Land  and 

Buildings  , 

232,000 

*Valuation  assessed  by  city  of  New  York. 


TABLE  2 

VALUE  OF  LAND,  ALSO  LAND  AND  BUILDINGS,  OF 
SIX  PROPERTIES  USED  AS  SALOONS  ON  THE 
BOWERY  AND  WHICH  HAVE  NOT  CHANG- 
ED IN  THEIR  OUTWARD  APPEARANCE* 

>  1916  »  <  1922  » 


TOTAL 

TOTAL 

LAND 

VALUE 

LAND 

VALUE 

1. 

$  50,000 

$  65,000 

$  48.000 

$  70,000 

2. 

35,000 

45,000 

28,000 

40,000 

3. 

25,000 

31,000 

23,000 

31,000 

4. 

15,000 

18,000 

14,000 

19,000 

5 

105,000 

115,000 

85,000 

105,000 

6. 

12,000 

17,000 

13.000 

20,000 

Total  . .  . 

.  $242,000 

$291,000 

$211,000 

$285,000 

Decrease- 

$31,000 

Dec  rease- 

—Land  and  Buildings  .  . 

. .  6,000 

Valuation  assessed  by  city  of  New  York. 


TABLE  3 

SHOWING  ACTIVITIES  OF  THE  BOWERY  MISSION 
FREE   MEALS  DISTRIBUTED  AND  EMPLOYMENT   FOUND  BY 
THE  MISSION  ON  THE  BOWERY 

EMPLOY- 
BREAD  LINE  TOTAL  MENT 


1  A.  M.           ALL  MEALS  FOUND 

1910                       121,000  209,594  3,237 

1911                       144,000  299,213  3,346 

1912                      135,000  299,410  3,554 

1913                       116,000  271,485  5,414 

1914                       148,000  309,777  4,144 

1915                       132,000  303,916  3,700 

1916                       No  data  No  data  No  data 

1917                       80,191  133,333  3,818 

1918                       Discontinued    59,408  2,176 

1919    No  data  No  data 

1920                                          67,094  No  data 

1921    64,688  45,518 

1922    67,773  47,906 


Note  decrease  in  charity  needs  as  Bowery  residents  be- 
come more  industrious. 


TABLE  4 

SHOWING   ACTIVITIES   OF  THE   HADLEY  HALL 
RESCUE   MISSION   ON   THE  BOWERY 


MEETINGS  MEALS  LODGINGS 

ATTENDANCE  GIVEN  GIVEN 

1912                       53,447  9,925  6,865 

1913                      52,153  25,890  7,186 

1914                      91,823  47,295  22,948 

1915    108,896  126,181  54,469 

1916                      88,600  41,500  37,654 

1917                      75,665  24,806  34,267 

1918                      40,994  10,393  19,808 

1919                      62,726  19,225  38,430 

1920                     40,952  21,596  22,571 

1921                      73,982  21,238  53,359 

1922                      47,842  15.585  39,967 


TABLE  5 

RECORD  OF  THE  REPLACING  OF  THE  36 
BOWERY  SALOONS 

1921    1922  1923 


Saloons,  not  discontinued                     17  9  6 

Saloons  discontinued  since  1918            19  27  30 

Replaced  as  follows : 

Restaurants                                         6  11  11 

Clothing                                            5  12  14 

Candy   4  5 

Grocer — Food   2 

Cigars                                               2  2  3 

Jewelry                                                2  3  1 

Fixtures  (electric  and  store)                 2  2  5 

Banks   1  1  . 

Shoes                                               1  3  2 

Miscellaneous                                      5  14  21 

Total                                          23  54  68 


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